Abundance - Sexuality’s History (Hardcover)

In Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead, Arondekar theorizes the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj—a caste-oppressed devadasi collective in South Asia—that are plentiful and quotidian, imaginative and ordinary. For Arondekar, abundance is inextricably linked to the histories of subordinated groups in ways that challenge narratives of their constant devaluation. Summoning abundance over loss upends settled genealogies of historical recuperation and representation and works against the imperative to fix sexuality within wider structures of vulnerability, damage, and precarity. Multigeneric and multilingual, transregional and historically supple, Abundance centers sexuality within area, post/colonial, and anti/caste histories.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Theory Q
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Anjali Arondekar
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1724-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	1-4780-1724-4
Barcode:	9781478017240

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